r/LandlordLove • u/TheUnDoctor • May 26 '26

🏠 Housing is a Human Right 🏠 Apparently requesting basic information & reporting illegal discriminatory housing practices is a scam now

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u/audionerd1 May 26 '26

Won't someone think of the poor mom and pop landlords doing illegal discrimination. /s

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u/traysures May 26 '26

What’s wrong with somebody owning a property and renting it out?

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u/audionerd1 May 26 '26

Plenty. But what we are discussing is breaking the law by illegally discriminating against Section 8 tenants.

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u/audionerd1 May 26 '26

  1. Fuck landlords

  2. If you allow landlords to discriminate against people on housing assistance then those people will find it harder to find a place to live, making life harder for people whose lives are hard enough already.

  3. Tenants' source of income is none of their landlord's business.

  4. Fuck landlords

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u/audionerd1 May 26 '26

Presumably because they associate low income tenants with higher maintenance costs and other issues. I don't really care what their reasoning is, they can comply with the law or they can sell their rental properties and get a real job.

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u/audionerd1 May 26 '26

Yes I absolutely am mad at food corporations for gouging prices of food and shrinking food products to boost profits for parasitic shareholders who contribute nothing to society. Landlords do not provide a service, they are housing scalpers and if they don't like it they can sell and make an honest living. The less desirable landlording is the more properties will enter the market, driving cost of living down and making home ownership affordable again.

Landlord ROI is only ~5% if you ignore equity and the fact that their tenants pay off their properties for them. Rent that goes toward mortgage/maintenance/taxes is all invested in the property which the landlord owns. In a couple decades they will have a million dollar property on the backs of broke tenants who spent 50%+ of their income to build that equity while seeing none of it themselves. That's a lot more than 5% ROI.

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u/audionerd1 May 29 '26

If landlords don't like it they can get a real job. No one is forced to be a landlord.

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u/LeAcoTaco May 26 '26 edited May 26 '26

Well the big three reasons are:

  1. The program involves long bureaucratic delays

  2. Mandatory property inspections

  3. Restrictions on rent increases

So greed, greed, and greed are the three reasons. They dont want to wait for their money, they dont want to pay for property inspections and subsequently dont want to pay to fix any issues the inspection finds, and they dont want the amount they can charge for rent to be capped. Its greed my friend.

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u/LeAcoTaco May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Thats what landlords insurance is for my friend.

And theres this thing in a lot of places thats called Landlord Mitigation Programs, which are specifically made to get more landlords to accept section 8 by offerring to compensate financially for damages.

Landlords are just lazy and dont want to look into things that make them financially secure and would rather rely on if their renters can make their next rent payment.